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enIndia’s twin environmental challengeshttp://cseindia.org/content/india%E2%80%99s-twin-environmental-challenges
<p>In the past 10 years, India&rsquo;s environmental movement has had a rebirth. It was first born in the 1970s, when the industrialised world was seeing the impact of growth on its environment. In that decade the air and rivers of London, Tokyo and New York were full of toxins. The world was learning the pain of pollution. The first major global conference on the environment, the Stockholm meet, was held to find ways to deal with this growing scourge.</p>
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<p>The last image of 2012 is protesters storming the bastion of Delhi, outraged at the brutal rape of a young girl and the culture of violence against women. This outburst by the educated middle class, many of them young women, was spontaneous as much as it was leaderless. But as we move to the next year, we need to think about the response of the government to this protest and others. We need to understand if the Indian state has any clue about what is going on under its nose&mdash;and feet.</p>
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<p>The last image of 2012 is protesters storming the bastion of Delhi, outraged at the brutal rape of a young girl and the culture of violence against women. This outburst by the educated middle class, many of them young women, was spontaneous as much as it was leaderless. But as we move to the next year, we need to think about the response of the government to this protest and others. We need to understand if the Indian state has any clue about what is going on under its nose&mdash;and feet.</p>
<p><a href="http://cseindia.org/content/a-year-leadership-failure" target="_blank">read more</a></p>BlogsConflictsDown to earthGovernance And InstitutionsIndiaPeoplePoliticsSunita NarainMon, 31 Dec 2012 20:32:46 +0000Sunita Narain4781 at http://cseindia.orgFrom protests to where in 2012?http://cseindia.org/content/protests-where-2012
<p>2011&rsquo;s person of the year, according to Time magazine, is &ldquo;the protester&rdquo;. Clearly, this is the image that has captured the world&mdash;from dissent against the lack of democracy and repression in large parts of West Asia to anger against economic policies in vast and disparate parts of the world. People, all over, are saying enough is enough. But what will happen to these voices in the coming years? Will the movements of protesters be enough to change the way the world runs its business? Do these movements even know what they want?</p>
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<p>My article last fortnight about people&rsquo;s fight against POSCO has brought me interesting responses. They call for clarifications and further discussion. The question is about the value of current livelihoods of the people of coastal Odisha. Is earning from betel nut farming being exaggerated to reinforce the romantic and misinformed view that people are fighting projects because they are better off today? The equally valid question, then, is: why are the people so apparently poor if they are earning Rs 10-17 lakh per hectare (ha) each year as I had said?</p>
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<p>The sight on television was heartbreaking: children lying in rows in the searing sun to be human shields against the takeover of their land for Korean giant POSCO&rsquo;s mega bucks project. Facing them were armed police sent by the state government to assist in the operation.</p>
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<p>The Forest Rights Act of 2006&mdash;also known as the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act&mdash;came after considerable and bitter opposition from conservation groups.</p>
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